- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:55:36 -0500
- To: fmanola@mitre.org
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>
>>
>> > At the same time, the use of RDF does not necessarily involve the
>> > use of esoteric AI technologies, as the term "semantic" might
>> > suggest.
>>
>> Oh, PLEASE. What a slew of inappropriate (and now archaic) academic
>> prejudices lurk in that word 'esoteric'. Why not just come out and say
>> "Don't be frightened, children". Sorry, but you can hardly expect an
>> ex-president of AAAI to let that go by without a murmur.
>
>No problem. However, I find myself speaking about this stuff to people
>who have those prejudices (they aren't "academic" prejudices, at least
>in the sense the people I'm speaking to are academics). I find it helps
>to explicitly address the wave of distrust "semantic" sometimes induces,
>and then go ahead and talk about the esoteric AI technologies (they then
>seem happier about things like inference, for some reason). I didn't
>say "don't be frightened, children" because adults don't appreciate
>being told they're acting like children, even when they are ("here
>darling, take this nice teaspoon of first order logic, it's good for
>you"). As ex-president of AAAI, surely you know what effect this stuff
>frequently has on people who aren't members of AAAI (I am a member of
>AAAI, BTW)? Suggestions for rewording? Would you prefer something
>like:
>
>"At the same time, the use of RDF does not necessarily involve the use
>of inference or logic programming, as the term "semantic" might suggest.
That would be better, yes. But its OK, you just stubbed one of my
sore places. I should have toned down the yelling.
Pat
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